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Leave Hitler To Me Lad, Theatre Review. Actors Studio, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * *

Cast: Kivan Dene, Leanne Rowley, Rachel O’Hare, James Mountain, Jonah Kensett, Luke Wakeman, Grace Mainon.

It is the early 1950s and the country is still recovering from war. Rock and Roll is making its mark, King George is dead and war torn England is changing. At Great Stony School Essex, young Brian (Jonah Kensett) is waiting for his dad to come and fetch him to take him home, but after watching all of his friends go off to loving new homes, Brian thinks that no one will come, until one day everything changes. Brian says goodbye to his best friends George (Luke Wakeman) and Gladys (Grace Mainon) and heads off to his new life with his sister.

Duckegg Theatre Company Bring Haley Cox’s New Play To The Liverpool Actor’s Studio.

Duckegg Theatre Company are touring their brand new family musical, Leave Hitler To Me, Lad, by award winning playwright Haley Cox and L.A. composer Ben Pringle (previous credits include Buffy the Vampire Slayer), designed by the critically acclaimed Barney George.

The show will visit The Liverpool Actors Studio Theatre on 4th March.  During its premiere run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival the piece was named “…the most sensitive and well-written family show at the festival” by Broadway Baby. The show began its life as a result of a Research and Development week supported by Arts Council England.  The cast mixes four professional actors (including Spotlight Prize nominee James Mountain and Kivan Dene of Emmerdale fame) with six of the company’s youth theatre members.  Sean Green of the Bill Kenwright Company leads musical direction of this ambitious show.